2008
26.06. - 03.08
With the exhibition arquitectura concreta the two successful Madrid architects, Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, provide an overview of their current projects, all characterized by fascinating spatial configurations and incisive formal idioms.
2008
07.06. - 31.08
Televisions that retract into the ceiling, pivoting walls with a built-in mini-bar, underground "nuclear cities" – the works of Italian designer Joe Colombo could have emerged from the set of a contemporary James Bond film. They exude the spirit of the shrill Sixties yet also impress with their functionality and striking forms.
2008
06.03. - 26.10
The exhibition Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph connects the structural (and symbolic) endlessness of the architecture of the Kunsthaus Graz with an attempt to navigate (mentally) the temporal and spatial levels of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection.
2008
02.02. - 18.05
Pedro Cabrita Reis' works consist of commonplace surroundings, construction materials and architectural semantic appropriated from an existing reality and miraculously transformed into altars of an almost spiritual experience.
2008
19.01. - 03.02
In the exhibition Bonheur automatique, the Swiss artist Hanspeter Hofmann looks for linear relationships between chemical inputs and mental states and explores the question of how quasi-mechanical interfaces between people and the world can be used creatively.
2007
22.09. - 13.01
How long does one have to live in a place before qualifying as a local? What are the signs of belonging and what aspects of integration are identifiable? These are the questions addressed by "Volksgarten. The Politics of Belonging", a co-production with steirischer herbst.
2007
15.09. - 06.01
Provoking, difficult, and egotistical – Martin Kippenberger left many people with the distinct impression of an enfant terrible. Yet his multiple artistic output was more than just egocentricity – it also conveyed messages for humanity and a moral dimension.
2007
07.06. - 02.09
The exhibition "China Welcomes You ..." at Kunsthaus Graz presents a selection of around fifteen artists, setting out to explore new identities that present China from very different perspectives, confirming some stereotypes and refuting others.
2007
03.03. - 13.05
Should art make us laugh? Styrian artist Werner Reiterer certainly challenges us to ponder on the sense and nonsenses of our world, but the noir humour and irreverent handling of reality in his approach mean that our first reaction is to laugh out loud. What we make of it afterwards is the long finish, as it were.
2007
03.02. - 13.05
British artist of Welsh origin, Cerith Wyn Evans produces works which escape definition: chandeliers and fireworks that "speak", plants that are able to "generate" light, installations that theatricalise our experience. On the edge of magic, they bring in an uncanniness which radically alter our perception and challenges our vision.
2007
03.02. - 11.02
Kunsthaus Graz is presenting Eaux d'Artifice, an early masterpiece by one of the key figures in the American avantgarde cinema and queer movement. Here, the unique staging of light and the supended spectacle create a link to the following exhibition of Cerith Wyn Evans.
2006
04.11. - 14.01
Just like the first page of a book, upon entering an exhibition space, a door opens up into a new world that wants to transport our visitors away.
2006
23.09. - 22.10
Protections is confronting head-on the fact that our modern societies are undergoing a far-reaching of redefinition values process – under the pressure of individualism, neo-liberalism, information transfer and global markets. It is posing elemental questions on contemporary art and concepts of perception – going beyond the promise of a successful modern life.
2006
28.06. - 02.07
It was in a project that the students of the major "Media- and Interactive Design" (Degree Course Informationdesign at the University of applied sciences Joanneum Graz) have developed ways to visualise the archive materials of the Kunsthaus Graz.
2006
10.06. - 03.09
The Anton and Annick Herbert Collection, which has recently attracted particular attention thanks to a major review in the New York Times, is a comprehensive overview of important positions in Conceptual and Minimal Art as well as Arte Povera.
2006
04.03. - 07.05
In spring 2006, the Kunsthaus Graz is showing an exhibition on the metamorphosis of the artist's image and its mythology.
2006
04.02. - 07.05
The specific formal vocabulary of painting and sculpture is explored in an exhibition on display at the Kunsthaus Graz from 4 February to 7 May 2006 on the basis of works by one of the most important living Austrian painters, Maria Lassnig (1919), and the Californian sculptor Liz Larner (1960).
2006
25.01. - 19.02
In collaboration with the Diagonale the Kunsthaus Graz presents a film by the Austrian film-maker Jessica Hausner. A film like a puzzle picture - where is the borderline between lust and addiction? A subversive critique of the iconography of the perception of women in Western society.
2006
13.01. - 25.01
Paju Book City is being built on an area on the northern bank of the Han River in Korea and is designed as a self-sufficient print media metropolis.
2005
01.10. - 08.01
The autumn exhibition of Kunsthaus Graz M Stadt is dedicated to the topic of the “City” – as is the programme of steirischer herbst festival 2005. It offers visitors various approaches and possible perceptions of this complex issue.